Sensory Tactile Activities

Sensory Tactile Activities –

Tactile activities can be an important part of sensory diet or fine motor skill building program. Tactile activities are very helpful in problems like hand and finger awareness, attention, and fine motor planning.

What is a tactile system?

The tactile system provides us with our sense of touch. The sense of touch is important for growth and development, as well as survival.

The tactile system receives information about touch from receptor cells in the skin. The receptors are all over the bodies, providing information about light touch, vibration, pressure, temperature, and pain.

Tactile system provides us information which is required for every activity of daily life it includes, eating, toileting, dressing, combing, household chores, school works, and job works.

Tactile Dysfunction-

Like vestibular dysfunction, the child with tactile dysfunction also has hyper or hypo-sensitive to touch or may have problems with tactile discrimination. Some children may excessively or under register the touch input. They may have a problem with tactile sensory modulation. It may create a problem in daily routine life.

Tactile defensiveness-

In tactile defensiveness, the child may interpret and react harmless light touch as being potentially dangerous. These children may appear anxious, aggressive, unwilling to participate in home and school activities.

Hyporesponsive to touch-

Some kids may have hypo-responsive to the touch input. They may have low arousal level and may not register some of the touch stimuli. This poor response to touch input may hamper the activities of daily living. Body awareness and motor planning may be disturbed.

Touch seeker-

Some children seem to seek out excessive amounts of touch sensations. They crave for the touch sensation. They try to touch everything around.

The tactile system is very important for the development of other skills like gross motor skills and fine motor skills. Sensory tactile activities may be used to improve the modulation of tactile sensation.

Characteristics of Tactile Dysfunction-

The child who is over-responsive to touch stimuli may:

Rubbing off kisses or casual touches and pushing others away to avoid closeness.

Instantly and intensely exhibit a “fight or fright” response or a “flight or freeze” response to harmless touch sensations.

Dislike messy activities (cooking, painting, using chalk or tape).

Be bothered by certain types of clothing, and be particularly sensitive to sock seams, shoes, and tags in shirts.

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